There have been many stories about
Japanese landings on Australian soil during WW2. The majority of these stories
are unsubstantiated and more than likely not true. Of the following stories on
this page, there are only two that are substantiated by official documents.

The first one involves a Japanese
Army Reconnaissance party landing on the Western Australian coast near Cartier
and Browse Islands. While on Australian soil the Japanese even took some 8 mm
movie footage of what they saw. As it turned out they had landed only 25 kms
from where the RAAF were several weeks later to start building their secret
airfield at Truscott.

The other incident has become known
as the "Kentish Affair". While it was not a case of Japanese landing
on Australian soil, it is about a Japanese floatplane landing in Australian
waters off the Northern Territory coast and taking an Australian clergyman as a
prisoner.

Did the Japanese ever plan to invade
Australia? There have been no substantiated approved Japanese plans to invade
Australia unearthed at this stage, though there was at least one Japanese
invasion plan proposed which was knocked back by Japanese Prime Minister,
General Tojo.